Old Computer Use Case: A 9front-Powered Offline Workstation for Writers

I have a castoff Compaq Evo N600c laptop that was passed on to me by someone who hadn’t used it in well over a decade, and who had also forgotten their Windows 2000 password.

To them, the machine was merely a laptop-shaped paperweight. To me, it was an opportunity to fulfill a dream I’d been harboring for a long, long time, which was to set aside a separate computer to be used primarily for text editing, and secondarily to induct my kids into the mysterious and arcane world of the command line. (It is at the…